Re: Linux 2.0.3x & gcc 2.8
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 11:30:16 -0800 (PST)
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>
> On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > In short, it may not be a technical gcc problem, but it IS a problem with
> > the gcc-2.8.0 _release_. Right now it isn't entirely clear whether the
> > 2.8.0 behaviour is a mistake or not, and I'm personally rather unhappy
> > with people claiming that it is a Linux problem.
>
> FYI, I digged my personal mail archives and found that I had been able to
> produce bad code under similar circumstances with gcc-2.7.2.1, I have
> unfortunately deleted the source example and it was 3 months ago :-(.
Note that that is _definitely_ a bug in 2.7.2.1, and nobody has ever even
tried to explain it away, I think.
The silly thing is that there was already a one-liner fix for gcc posted
that fixed gcc to generate code according to the documentation. So the gcc
people do know about this all, but as far as I can tell nobody has decided
what the eventual behaviour should be..
Linus
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